The LIMINAL Series
Li / min/ al : a transitional or initial stage of a process.
This series aims to support artists in the in between; the space between idea and result. So much of traditional art making and production is at the mercy of strict timelines, financial ‘bottom’ lines and programming beholden to tickets sales. By liberating this process from those exclusionary parameters we are producing art in a more equitable and accessible way; we are reinventing how, who and what gets created, produced and witnessed in our communities and we are bringing important, transformative stories to life in The LIMINAL Series.
IN THE STUDIO
imprints (Working title)
Created and Performed By Asteria Howard
Directed By Katherine Murphy Lewis
Imprints is a visceral multi-media movement based project that investigates the tumultuous path to liberation. Connecting the stars above us to the water around us, Asteria guides audiences through ebbs and flows, taking us from loss to transformation. Like saltwater cauterizing an open wound, it burns at first but can end in the soul cleansing of truly seeing yourself, there looking back at you in the mirror. Discover what it means to run back into the arms of oneself in this raw, sensual, and soulful journey that we are on as humans.
Coming March 2025
grand Canyon
Created By Katherine Murphy Lewis
Directed by Lauren Wilson
‘…2 to 7 months…2 to 7months….. 2…..to…..7 months… those dates, those numbers, so small, so short, rang and clanged about inside me, time no longer my friend.
I hit record and subtly placed my phone on the table. I am struck by how normal it all sounds, sitting outside, eating chicken, talking about our favorite Netflix shows and what treatments my dads going to try. I want to capture us, our conversations, his cadence, the rhythm that is my mother and him and me, a little nation of three, still intact. I try keep that place, that moment in a jar like a firefly, untouched by time.…hit record, quietly place phone on table, capture something, something that cant be lost… capture him before he goes… and he did go…’
This emerging work throws together discreet recordings of my dying father, a trip to Target, a world spinning directly towards ‘the end o’ times’, and asks out loud ‘Should I get a 401K or lean wilderness survival skills?
All this and more Katherine you watch attempt, not so gracefully make peace with being a stupid human doing the stupid human dance, and if she fails at that, well at least you will be there to see it!
COMING APRIL 2025
Sublimation by shona carter
This new creation by Shona Carter blends family photos, recorded autobiographical stories and visual arts in an exploration the migration of generation trauma, of cells, of black joy, family and a lineage that calls her and her family back to Historic Alberta District.
In a co-production with the Historic Alberta House this experimental and ambitious living exhibit is still in its’ incubation phase and dates are TBD